User Interface Design and AI
Rome
ITA
Master Course
Language
Italian
Start date
November 2026
Frequency
Part-time
Fruition
On campus
Duration
10 Months
Course Coordination
Andrea Caperni
Price
EU/EEA resident students: €13.500
Non‑EU/Non-EEA resident students: €15.500
How are interfaces changing as artificial intelligence and digital design begin to interact in a structural way?
In recent years, interface design has moved beyond a purely visual dimension to become a complex system in which experience, content, and technology are closely connected. Artificial intelligence, and generative AI in particular, is reshaping the way digital products, interactive services, and hybrid experiences are conceived and developed. This transformation opens new possibilities, while also introducing new responsibilities for designers working in the digital field.
The Master in User Interface Design and AI at IED Roma addresses this shift by preparing designers who can integrate UI and UX design skills with a critical understanding of artificial intelligence tools. Digital design is approached as a structured process that places users, contexts of use, and quality of experience at its centre, without separating creative, technical, and strategic dimensions. Rome provides a particularly fertile environment for this type of training. The city hosts cultural institutions, public bodies, design studios, agencies, startups, and organisations active in digital communication, audiovisual production, and entertainment. This ecosystem allows students to engage with complex projects, often involving the integration of physical and digital spaces, and to establish direct connections with professional practice.
Throughout the programme, students develop a solid design methodology by working on visual and interactive systems defined by clarity and attention to user experience. Artificial intelligence is explored across the curriculum, both as a tool supporting creative and production processes and as a design element that can influence content, functionality, and user interaction within interfaces.
The course is structured around three main areas that constantly interact: Art Direction and Visual Design, User Interface and User Experience Design, and Experience Design. Students work on projects ranging from visual identity development to the design of interfaces for apps, websites, and games, as well as interactive and hybrid experiences linked to events, brands, and real contexts. Teaching combines lectures, studio activities, meetings with professionals, site visits, and industry events. In the second part of the programme, students undertake structured project work designed as professional simulations, engaging with all stages of the process, from brief analysis to design development, production, and final presentation. The programme concludes with a Thesis Project conceived as an original multi-platform proposal that synthesises the skills acquired and serves as a first professional portfolio asset.
The Master prepares professionals to work in digital design and interactive experience design. Graduates may pursue roles such as UI-UX Designer, Experience Designer, AI Specialist, Information Architecture Designer, Prompt Designer, or Digital Art Director, contributing to the development of apps, websites, interactive platforms, and digital products for companies, institutions, agencies, and brands active in the new media sector.
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